Although I haven't setup SAMBA PET as of yet on 5.4 try this to see if it affects Windows access: Turn your firewall off and try again. If it still doesn't work with the f/w off momentarily, post your smb.conf?

And, did you install SAMBA from Slacko Repo via the PPM?

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When I originally set up the firewall, I allowed 192.168.1.1/24 through. Last night I changed that to 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0, and then Windows would only see the hostnmame, but would not show the shares without a login. This was a change in the wrong direction.

Today on rebooting Puppy is not seen on the network at all. I'm assuming Samba, now installed, is an autorun?

type "smbclient -L localhost"
(You will or should see all that Slacko is sharing)

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Thanks so much for all that effort, gcmartin. Sorry for the delay - I had a few Windows machines come in that needed to be dealt with.

I went through the procedure until getting back into X. I stopped there because in trying to set the SMB password, the error came back, failed to find entry for user root. I assume that needs to be dealt with before any progress can be made.

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Can you share when you got this error. On which step number did you get the error?

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Yes I did. I thought it best for safety. You've got to realize I'm a babe in the woods on this stuff.

I don't recall a password query on the linux side at all. The Win7 side, yes. And I entered the samba login in Windows. That's a little weird because Windows states that root is an account on the Win7 machine in the login box. But I knew linux was not going to recognize my windows login - or at least I suspected so.

Yes I did. I thought it best for safety. You've got to realize I'm a babe in the woods on this stuff. ...

OK, I understand. But some of the issues you are seeing is because you may be trying to start your trek from a position without following guidelines to get you started easily.

Once you're started, you can then begin to impose necessary changes to match any environmental needs you feel appropriate.

But, in actuality, I claim responsibility for not sharing that in getting you started, you really should have set BOTH the Linux and the SAMBA passwords to be the same so that all would go smoothly thru-out the initial setup and tests.

So, now, that you have an understanding of what it takes to get your sharing efforts going, you might want to turn your f/w back on.

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